|
|
| [1]WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work thou hast wrought in their days, in the times of old; |
[No book] |
| [2]How thou didst destroy the Gentiles with thy hand, and established thy people; how thou didst vex the kingdoms, and strengthened thy people. |
[No book] |
| [3]For they inherited not the land by their sword, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou wast pleased with them. |
[No book] |
| [4]Thou art my King, O God; for thou commandest deliverances for Jacob. |
[No book] |
| [5]Through thee will we pierce our enemies; through thy name will we tread them under that hate us. |
[No book] |
| [6]For we trust not in our bows; neither on our armour to save us. |
[No book] |
| [7]But thou hast saved us from those who hate us, and hast put to shame our enemies. |
[No book] |
| [8]We glorify thee, O God, all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. |
[No book] |
| [9]But now thou hast forsaken us and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies: |
[No book] |
| [10]But thou makest us to be defeated; and our enemies have plundered us. |
[No book] |
| [11]Thou hast sold us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the Gentiles. |
[No book] |
| [12]Thou hast sold thy people as a bargain, and dost not profit by their exchange. |
[No book] |
| [13]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
[No book] |
| [14]Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations. |
[No book] |
| [15]All the day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, |
[No book] |
| [16]Because of the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes; and because of the enemy that avenges. |
[No book] |
| [17]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
[No book] |
| [18]We have not turned back, neither have we swerved our steps from thy way; |
[No book] |
| [19]For thou hast humbled us a second time in the land, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
[No book] |
| [20]And yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods; |
[No book] |
| [21]God will look into this thing, for he knows the secrets of the heart. |
[No book] |
| [22]Yea, for thy sake are we killed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
[No book] |
| [23]Awake and sleep not, O LORD; remember us and forsake us not. |
[No book] |
| [24]Turn not thy face from us, and forget not our humiliation and our oppression; |
[No book] |
| [25]For our soul is humbled down to the dust; our body touches the earth. |
[No book] |
| [26]Arise to help us; redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
[No book] |